Hello Mondays, welcome back to #5OnMyTBR, a meme created by the wonderful E @ The Local Bee Hunter’s Nook. This bookish meme gets us to dig even further into our TBRs by simply posting about five books on our TBR! You can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. You can find the full list of prompts (past and future) at the end of this post!

This week’s prompt is: Black Covers
A few years ago when I decided to do my shelves by colour, I realised that I had a lot of books with black covers/spines! It was perhaps the most common colour aside from white. I actually thought I had a lot more blues and reds, but those colours come in third and fourth after black/white! Since this topic needs no further introduction, let’s get on to the sharing of the books on my list!
Black sun
A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun
In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.
Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.
foundryside
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle.
But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic–the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience–have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims.
Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them.
To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.
THE invisible LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
the girl who could move sh*t with her mind
For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.
Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she’s got telekinetic powers—a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she’s normal for once.
But then a body turns up at the site of her last job—murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She’s got 24 hours to clear her name—and it’s not just her life at stake. If she can’t unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that’s on the brink of exploding…
Full of imagination, wit and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an irreverent new voice will blow your tiny mind.
ON THE COME UP
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as beats and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it.
On the Come Up is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families.

November
02/11/2020 — Death09/11/2020 — Friendship- 16/11/2020 — Black Cover
- 23/11/2020 — Nonfiction
- 30/11/2020 — Shorties
Do you have a lot of books with black covers? Have you read any of these titles or are they on your TBR? What did you think of it?

Ahhhh Addie and Black Sun are amazing! I hope you get round to them soon & enjoy them. I have had Foundryside on my TBR for ages so should really pick it up soon 😀
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Aaah I know! I really hope I enjoy both. Your review for both books are so great — especially for Black Sun which I just read earlier today (your review I mean lol) and omg… So excited for it 😍 Hope we both enjoy Foundryside whenever we get to it!
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Black Sun is on my TBR for this month. I am really hoping I can get to it!
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I hope you can too! I’ve only read one book by Roanhorse but absolutely loved the unique worldbuilding and I’ve heard so many great things about the worldbuilding in Black Sun as well. Happy reading 🙂
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Gorgeous cover designs!
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I love them as well 😍 So hard to resist such gorgeous covers! Lol
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My favorite is Foundryside! I still need to read it too. 😂
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It’s so pretty isn’t it!? I LOVE this cover. The UK one is so boring in comparison (and, of course, it’s the Kindle version I get) LOL 😂
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Ooh I’ve not heard of ‘The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with her Mind’ but I’m definitely going to check it out, it sounds so cool! Great post!
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Right?! I’ve seen a few good reviews although it’s definitely not as hyped as many of these on the list. But I’m looking forward to checking it out. I love the title 😂 Hope you enjoy it if you pick it up!
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I think I have the first four of these on my TBR as well haha! Great list. 😀
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Haha I hope we both enjoy them whenever we get around to them 😉
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